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Momenteering: The Misadventures of Living Other People's Moments
What if you could skip the worst and most awkward moments of your life—and pay someone else to live them for you?
Komo’s job is to “momenteer”: to blink inside strangers’ minds and experience what they’d rather avoid. A breakup. A funeral. The long, dull hours of a waiting room. The ache of trying to write a poem. With top-secret tech, he becomes them just long enough to take the hit—then hands their life back.
[Mature Readership Only. Please read Content Warning below]
But when one assignment reveals something terrible, Komo realises he’s not just living other people’s moments—he’s becoming entangled in them.
Can he save the child at the centre of it all? Should he end things with his girlfriend? How long can he keep avoiding Guilliver?
As the company tightens control and his sense of self begins to dissolve, Komo must decide what’s more dangerous: feeling nothing, or feeling too much.
Told through shifting perspectives and a fresh, immersive style that draws the reader inside the experiment, Momenteering is darkly funny, provocative, and deeply humane—a mind-bending novel about empathy, control, and the cost of living other people’s lives.
Did you complete the training modules?
Are you ready to blink in?
[Content Warning]
This novel is intended for mature readers.
Trigger warning:
While there are no direct or descriptive scenes, the plot is propelled by the topic of child abuse. The topic itself is dealt with sensitively and kept to the background of the text.
Komo’s job is to “momenteer”: to blink inside strangers’ minds and experience what they’d rather avoid. A breakup. A funeral. The long, dull hours of a waiting room. The ache of trying to write a poem. With top-secret tech, he becomes them just long enough to take the hit—then hands their life back.
[Mature Readership Only. Please read Content Warning below]
But when one assignment reveals something terrible, Komo realises he’s not just living other people’s moments—he’s becoming entangled in them.
Can he save the child at the centre of it all? Should he end things with his girlfriend? How long can he keep avoiding Guilliver?
As the company tightens control and his sense of self begins to dissolve, Komo must decide what’s more dangerous: feeling nothing, or feeling too much.
Told through shifting perspectives and a fresh, immersive style that draws the reader inside the experiment, Momenteering is darkly funny, provocative, and deeply humane—a mind-bending novel about empathy, control, and the cost of living other people’s lives.
Did you complete the training modules?
Are you ready to blink in?
[Content Warning]
This novel is intended for mature readers.
Trigger warning:
While there are no direct or descriptive scenes, the plot is propelled by the topic of child abuse. The topic itself is dealt with sensitively and kept to the background of the text.
- GenresFictionScience Fiction
280 pages, ebook
First published October 25, 2022
7 people are currently reading
80 people want to read
About the author
Craig Jonathan Reekie
2 books3 followersCraig Jonathan Reekie is a visually impaired writer born in Fife, Scotland. He lost his sight due to diabetic retinopathy and uses accessibility features to write.
His fiction is metamodern, existential, offbeat and darkly humorous. With comparisons to Black Mirror and Ray Bradbury, his debut novel Momenteering is a daring and unique twist on modern sci-fi and literary fiction.
He is currently working on short stories as well as a second novel.
His fiction is metamodern, existential, offbeat and darkly humorous. With comparisons to Black Mirror and Ray Bradbury, his debut novel Momenteering is a daring and unique twist on modern sci-fi and literary fiction.
He is currently working on short stories as well as a second novel.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
April 2, 2025
Not just a brilliant premise, but brilliantly executed too!
It's a little like Severance, people who can afford to 'outsource' moments in their life they don't want to experience to a momenteer, kind of like a call centre worker - but rather than listening to the general public whinge ad infinitum, they live out their funerals, awkward conversations, terrible sex, etc.
The main character, Komo, ends up momenteering and sees something he shouldn't have, something despicable, and the plot follows him disobeying the rules of momenteering and finding the culprit responsible.
Well worth a read. I can't really say much more without spoiling it!
It's a little like Severance, people who can afford to 'outsource' moments in their life they don't want to experience to a momenteer, kind of like a call centre worker - but rather than listening to the general public whinge ad infinitum, they live out their funerals, awkward conversations, terrible sex, etc.
The main character, Komo, ends up momenteering and sees something he shouldn't have, something despicable, and the plot follows him disobeying the rules of momenteering and finding the culprit responsible.
Well worth a read. I can't really say much more without spoiling it!
January 13, 2024
loved it
This book was great!! Good plot, even better sentences. Interesting characters that were very relatable and good use to stream of conscious writing.
This book was great!! Good plot, even better sentences. Interesting characters that were very relatable and good use to stream of conscious writing.
July 30, 2023
This is such a great debut novel. The author clearly has a really beautiful mind and the concept is very strong. There are very interesting scenarios that bring up themes and questions of morality and philosophical ideas and you as a reader play a very interesting role. I found myself getting really emotional reading the about the author section. Really looking forward to reading more of your books Craig. It always amazes me that people can conjure an idea in their mind, keep it there and give birth to words that convey that picture - enough words to write a book about it... brilliant. Keep it up <3
August 21, 2024
Remarkable idea. Magnetically real characters. Poignant. Brings the atmosphere of Severance meets 1984 yet carves its own groove. Darkly funny. Introspective. Morally ambiguous. The pacing unravels well... even when it's calm it charms. Immersive prose, cool metaphors. Complex. Gritty. Well-rounded world. The 2nd person chapters reeled me in hard.
It’s a novel that won’t be for all but deserves a cult following. It's more literary fiction but covers many themes
So... momenteering seems like a stressful job but if those in charge are reading this please recruit me.
It’s a novel that won’t be for all but deserves a cult following. It's more literary fiction but covers many themes
So... momenteering seems like a stressful job but if those in charge are reading this please recruit me.
January 13, 2025
It was weird, thrilling, and awkward. Komo has intense paranoia, for a good reason, is socially awkward, and yet can perform tasks for other people at the blink of an eye. He would create these grand ideas out of small clues, which ultimately lead to some crazy stuff happening. I felt like I was reading the ramblings of a madman with bouts of clarity sprinkled along the way. A very interesting read.
May 25, 2024
Was an interesting story, some plot holes (Imo) and I felt it kinda fizzled out at the end, but a good overall read
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